Italian communists opposed fusion with reformist socialists even after expulsions

Evidence

Already in this summer of 1921, the P.C.I. leaders were deeply suspicious of the hopes placed by the International in the P.S.I.; the latter had not yet expelled the reformists, but the International generally believed that they would and that the P.C.I. should then fuse with them, while the P.C.I. leaders were utterly opposed to any such perspective, even if the reformists were to be expelled. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 121

Categorization

• XREF: The P.C.I.’s insistence on rupture from socialist tradition connects directly to Gramsci’s theory that a new hegemony requires breaking with prior ideological tradition. — connects to: Italian socialist leaders chose negotiation over insurrection in 1920, angering radicals — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 565

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• Italian socialist leaders chose negotiation over insurrection in 1920, angering radicals (similarity 0.83)
• An unresolved party-versus-union divide left the Italian radical movement internally dual (similarity 0.79)
• Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.79)